Ever since the announcement of the scrapping of ₹500 and ₹1,000 currency notes was made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 8 November, Paytm, India's largest mobile wallet company, has upped its marketing on social media, asking people to use their services to avoid the hassle.

According to DNA, the growth of Paytm can be seen on the first two days itself. It had a 435% increase in traffic on day one itself and offline payment transactions increased by 400%. Even the transaction amount has increased by 200% of the average ticket size.

"Since demonetization, we have witnessed a 3 times surge in overall traffic and added more than 20 million users--170 million wallets now," Paytm's VP Sudhanshu Gupta told DNA.

And high on a roaring success and being the only lifeline to many in the rough days, Paytm's founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma minced no words at the company's annual party. A video has now surfaced from the party, which shows Sharma is a never before seen avatar, pumped up and motivating the team, occasionally going overboard. It was a performance reminiscent of former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who was known for his charged on-stage appearances at Microsoft developer conferences.